00:00Ciao Douglas, ciao Guido, come sei?
00:02Bene, grazie. All the best for sitting here.
00:04Oh, grazie.
00:06For me the same.
00:07Spaghetti Western knows how to chat the story of our present.
00:13In that dirty black bag we see a town
00:17where the line between good guys and bad guys
00:20is not well defined.
00:22Survival and revenge can become very dangerous and violent.
00:26Do you also see this aspect nowadays?
00:32I mean, everywhere.
00:35If you look on the news and you look at the politicians and the leaders,
00:38it's hard to sometimes decide who is good or bad
00:43or who has the right intention.
00:45More and more the world seems to be pushed by greed
00:50and consumption and capitalism.
00:53so I think, yes, very much the real world is reflected
00:56in some way in a dirty world in Greenvale.
01:01I think that in reality,
01:04life can sometimes be too much for the screen.
01:06There are realities,
01:08apart from this world called civilized,
01:12there are realities that are definitely more crudely,
01:20more cruel, more sanguine,
01:24absolutely.
01:25If this is a question, it reflects a lot.
01:30After watching the series,
01:32do you look suspiciously at People's Bank?
01:36What do you have in there?
01:39Sometimes, I mean, yes,
01:41if there's a sort of strange smell coming off it perhaps.
01:45Normally there's just a Chihuahua or something inside.
01:48But yes.
01:50Are you suspicious of People's Bags?
01:52I've always been.
01:53Always been.
01:56Often during the childhood,
01:58there is the myth of the cowboy and the horse.
02:02Have you ever dreamed of being one?
02:06Very much so from a young age.
02:08I rode and I very much enjoyed it.
02:11So the idea of being able to work and ride a horse
02:14at the same time is a bit of a pinch me moment
02:17and to be on these incredible sets.
02:19Sergio Leone's sets in Almeria was amazing.
02:22I mean, Guido owns horses, so he was born.
02:25He is a cowboy.
02:26Yeah, but the story was like...
02:29I was watching the show and I saw him riding,
02:32because we were talking like he was telling me,
02:36yeah, but you ride well, I ride sometimes,
02:38and I'm watching the show and he rides better than me.
02:40Way better.
02:42So anyways, we had fun.
02:44That's what I was saying.
02:46Playing cowboys,
02:47it's something that belongs to since childhood somehow.
02:51It's like a dream.
02:52Yes.
02:52To be on horses and have guns and all of that.
02:58How was the set between Italy, Spain, Morocco
03:02and the action scene?
03:07Well, I mean, yes, we filmed in three locations,
03:10which is quite rare for a TV production to be so ambitious,
03:14to move such a big crew and cast between these three locations.
03:19So that was extremely exciting.
03:20And it was towards the end of COVID,
03:22so getting an opportunity to travel and build a kinship
03:25and a friendship and a camaraderie
03:27and to sit around a fire and share a bottle of wine
03:30and talk about the characters.
03:31It felt great freedom.
03:33But yeah, I mean, the action scenes...
03:36I mean, well, what's the question?
03:39How did they relate to the environment or how did they...
03:42Well, in general...
03:44In general, they were fun.
03:45Yeah, they were fun.
03:46Yes, they were a lot of fun and safe, I think, at the same time.
03:52Yeah, we had a great crew.
03:55It gets tough sometimes with the weather condition and all of this,
03:59but it's normal, a part of the game.
04:01Yes, very much so.
04:02I mean, when you're doing it in 45 degree heat in Morocco,
04:05you're questioning your choices a little as you begin to melt into a puddle on the floor.
04:11Very quickly, question, last one.
04:15What is the beauty of the Dirty Black Bag?
04:18The bag itself? No.
04:22The beauty of the Dirty Black Bag itself.
04:25I would say it's the framing, it's the shots.
04:29I think the cinematography is outstanding.
04:32And yeah, I would say it's the cinematography
04:36and the way it's captured our cameras.
04:38So often you work with a director who just puts the close-up,
04:42the medium shot, the wide shot.
04:43It was always creative and I felt it was really...
04:46We were ambitious to shoot it in a style
04:49and not just deliver something average, I think.
04:52That's the beauty of it, I think.
04:54Yeah.
04:54For you?
04:55I agree.
04:58Weed and Douglas, thank you for your time.
04:59It was a pleasure talking to you.
05:01Thank you so much.
05:01Grazie.
05:03MDR 2022
05:04Grazie a tutti.
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